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Verb: bury  beree
  1. Cover from sight
    "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
     
  2. Place in a grave or tomb
    "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"
    - entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest
     
  3. Place in the earth and cover with soil
    "They buried the stolen goods"
     
  4. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    - immerse, swallow, swallow up, eat up
     
  5. Embed deeply
    "He buried his head in her lap"
    - sink
     
  6. Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
    "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
    - forget

Sounds like: berry

Derived forms: buries, burying, buried

See also: burial

Type of: close in, conceal, deposit, embed, enclose, engraft, fix, hide, imbed, implant, inclose, lay, plant, posit, put down, repose, shut in, situate

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